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Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with safety. It’s the constant that empowers people to confidently move forward. It can fill a flight or sell out a stadium. It can care for a patient or graduate a class.

As a global leader in public safety and enterprise security, we create and connect the technologies that help to keep people safe where they live, learn, work and play. Our integrated technology ecosystem unifies critical communications, video security and access control, and command center software, enabling collaboration in more powerful ways.

At Motorola Solutions, we’re ushering in a new era in public safety and security. Bring your passion, potential and talents to a career that matters.

Department Overview

The Patent Professional will work in an innovative and collaborative Motorola Solutions Patent Strategy and Operations (PS&O) group focused on a broad range of next generation public safety technologies, including but not limited to, video processing, video analytics, access control, cloud computing, data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, media processing and distribution, public safety command center technologies, in-field mobile device applications, in-vehicle mobile applications, and other technologies.

Job Description

The Patent Professional may be responsible for one or more of the following:

• Attending and participating in patent committee review meetings,

• Identifying high-value disclosures that would be additive to our existing portfolio

• Working with inventors to properly capture their ideas and inventions and submitting corresponding disclosures to the proper patent committee for consideration

• Participating in innovation scrubs of product and/or software releases

• Writing, filing, and prosecuting patent applications in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) and in foreign patent offices

• Securing and preparing source code and/or APIs for registration with the United States Copyright Office

• Overseeing outside counsel on certain aspects of outsourced cases

• Being the lead 'patent contact' for a particular business unit, including handling client training and development, understanding client business and existing patent portfolio(s), and guiding business and engineering professionals in generating high-value, high-impact assets

• Working and interacting with other MSI Patent Attorneys, Agents, Engineers, and Administrative Professionals on a daily basis, both inside and outside of the PS&O group

• Participating in invention mining / harvesting sessions. Some litigation / licensing support may also be periodically requested by litigation / licensing leads in the PS&O and/or Business Legal groups

• Mentoring inventors with nascent ideas to help expand and develop them to meet the company’s strategic portfolio needs

• Aiding in managing the current issued patent portfolio for their assigned business and the strategic focusing of that portfolio. This may include making and/or assisting with annuity decisions, foreign filing decisions, patent classifications, portfolio analysis, mining existing applications for additional coverage, competitive analysis, and identification of further strategic focus areas, among other possibilities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience drafting, editing, and/or reviewing patent disclosures and/or patent applications in stated field(s) of expertise, including experience in a law firm or corporate law department environment
• Strong organization, leadership, and communication skills to draft invention disclosures and/or draft and prosecute patent applications with high quality and efficiency
• Ability to present technical materials to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Great interpersonal and team-work skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Knowledge of video processing concepts (video encoding, decoding, object identification and tracking, scene understanding, media training and machine learning, etc.), IoT concepts, software development principles (OOP, Agile Dev., etc.), programming languages (such as Python, C#, Swift), cloud development and deployment principles, networking principles, and/or telecommunications principles a plus.
• Knowledge of various related technologies such as security, encryption, mixed reality, video / audio processing and analytics, access control, and/or blockchain a plus.
• Demonstrated experience in successfully working in a multi-discipline legal and/or technical office and the ability to work with and across multiple legal and/or technical disciplines.
• Extensive knowledge of U.S. patent laws and introduction to and/or knowledge of foreign patent laws.
• Experience and/or awareness of U.S. and Int’l export control requirements and/or processes.
• Prior familiarity with USPTO’s PAIR, EFS, and EPAS systems, Google Apps for Business, and/or Lecorpio preferred but not required.

Candidate may reside anywhere in the US

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Basic Requirements

• Juris Doctor Degree
• Undergraduate or Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems or Computer Engineering, or Computer Science or comparable field of study
• 6+ years of total legal and/or technical experience in the above-identified legal and technical areas
• Need to be a member of the USPTO patent bar and a member of at least one state bar, both in good standing
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required. Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position.  

Travel Requirements

Under 10%

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

Yes

Our U.S. Benefits include:

• Incentive Bonus Plans
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
• 401K with Company Match
• 9 Paid Holidays
• Generous Paid Time Off Packages
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Paid Parental & Family Leave
• and more!

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran's status, or, any other protected characteristic.